DBENEA a new dawn welcoming the day

DBENEA is the successor to the Research Programme on Sustainable Use of Dryland Biodiversity (RPSUD). Dryland scientists from Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania backed by their national institutions, met some seven years ago, and resolved to form a dryland biodiversity research consortium [More...]

The establishment of RPSUD in 1995 had provided a base for promoting training and capacity building of scientists and institutions in sustainable natural resource management in eastern Africa. [More...]

East african drylands are characterized by a harsh climate whose effects are confounded by aridity, episodic rain failure and sever droughts [More...]